Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection - Softcover
- PublisherUniv of Washington Pr
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0295964545
- ISBN 13 9780295964546
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection
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Guggenheim January 1981, New York
(1981)
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection
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ART OF THE AVANT-GARDE IN RUSSIA: Selections from the George Costakis Collection
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The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
(1981)
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Mint. First Edition. This mint unread copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. The text block is tight white, bright and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Russian Constructivism was a movement that was active from 1913 to the 1940s. It was a movement created by the Russian avant-garde, but quickly spread to the rest of the continent. Constructivist art is committed to complete abstraction with a devotion to modernity, where themes are often geometric, experimental and rarely emotional. Objective forms carrying universal meaning were far more suitable to the movement than subjective or individualistic forms. Constructivist themes are also quite minimal, where the artwork is broken down to its most basic elements. New media was often used in the creation of works, which helped to create a style of art that was orderly. An art of order was desirable at the time because it was just after WWI that the movement arose, which suggested a need for understanding, unity and peace. Famous artists of the Constructivist movement include Vladimir Tatlin, Kasimir Malevich, Alexandra Exter, Robert Adams, and El Lissitzky. George Costakis 5 July 1913 - 1990) was a collector of Russian art whose collection became the most representative body of Modern Russian avant-garde art anywhere. In the years surrounding the 1917 revolution, artists in Russia produced the first non-figurative art, which was to become the defining art of the 20th century. Costakis by chance discovered some constructivist paintings in a Moscow studio in 1946, and he went on to search for the revolutionary art which might otherwise have been lost to the world. Ref TT 1. Seller Inventory # 025646
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: selections from the George Costakis collection
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